nINE mONTHS oLD!

hAPPY 9 mONTH bIRTHDAY lITTLE bIRDIE! these were both so cute I had to share both of them!
Miss Molly Reed...
I cannot believe you are 9 months old and we will be celebrating your 1st birthday in just 3 short months!!! I feel like you just joined our family a few months ago! It makes me sad that you are growing up so fast but I truly feel like each stage is better than the last! You are wanting to get down and be right in the middle of whatever your big brothers are doing these days....you love your "bu-ba's" so much!!
We celebrated your birthday today with a quick picnic at the park {where our sweet mimi broke her wrist!!} and then your 1st Edmond Bulldog football game tonight! You were a bit of a turkey at the game and fussed through most of it....but you did love watching the cheerleaders at half time!!!
at nINE mONTHS you are...
*22.8 pounds!!! (96%)
*27 1/4 inches long (40%)
*don't remember what your head measured but it was 91%
*eating all table food...you want nothing to do with baby food! you are a great little eater!!! you love yogurt, grilled cheese, fruit, nutri grain bars, peas, carrots, and lots of other stuff!!! You will pretty much try anything....but baby food!!!
*you LOVE your mommy!!! you say "ma mama" so it sounds like you are saying My momma...I LOVE it! the boys did not say momma very early so it's like music to my ears!
*you are VERY verbal and "talk" a lot!!! da-da, bubba, ma-ma, ninny....
*you think you can walk....you try to get down of my lap when I'm holding you and then seem frustrated when your little legs don't work the way your big brothers do!
*you wear size 4 diapers
* you wear 12-18 month clothes
*working on crawling...but can't quite figure it out...but I am honestly kind of happy!! my life will be crazy with three that can move!
*you are the most loved little girl!

sCHOOL dAYS

My first baby started Kindergarten today.... jack, sam, and molly before school today...I love these sweet kiddos!

I found Jack the cutest little messenger bag a few weeks ago in Dallas! He loves it and thinks he looks like a big boy!!! He wore it around the house all morning and even in to one store before school started....

I try to change this little hutch out with seasonal decorations and I have been waiting to decorate it special for Jack's 1st day of school....

sammy was having no part of pictures by this point....so here are three of my favorite people...the other one had a rough day today! Bless his heart!

bob met us for lunch before school...such a fun treat for the kids and me! we love our daddy!!!Jack has a super sweet teacher this year! Ms. Snow...I think she is going to be perfect for him!!!! We have done a lot of praying over where Jack was going to be this year and really wanted a certain school....until about two weeks ago it did not look like he was going to be able to go there....but God is so good and we got a call saying a spot had opened up!!! We know several sweet families there and I feel like he is exactly where he is supposed to be!!

he looks like such a big boy!!! he had the best day and loves school! when he got in the car he had a huge smile on his face!!!!

we are so proud of you jack robert!

eIGHT mONTHS oLD!

hAPPY 8 mONTH bIRTHDAY lITTLE bIRDIE! Sweet Molly Reed...

Every day I think you get a little bit sweeter! You are in the middle of a terrible ear infection right now that has been hanging around for two weeks now...we are on the second round of antibiotics and you still have a sweet little smile on your face and barely make a noise! The other night you did have a terrible fit in the middle of the night which woke the whole family up...we were all 4 just staring at you.... I think we were so shocked to hear you like that! You are always so sweet and mild mannered! When we went to see the doctor Jack said "be sure and tell him about that loud thing in the middle of the night the other night!!!" Little does he know that him and his brother kept us up plenty of nights like that when they were babies!!!

We celebrated your 8 month birthday today with a trip to Pop's with MiMi! You tasted tomatoes, grilled cheese sandwich, and I think MiMi might have snuck in a french fry!!!

{at 8 months old you are...}

*you love to eat! You are a great little eater!!!

*you love your daddy!!! you light up when he gets home from work and get your little feelings hurt if he doesn't come right over to love on you!

*you wear size 4 diapers

*you weigh 20 pounds!

*you still wear 12-18 month clothes

* you aren't crawling yet...but you are reaching for toys while sitting and can go from sitting to tummy pretty well...

*you sleep pretty good right now...you remind me more of Jack's sleep patterns than Sammy's....you sleep a really long stretch and do better if you go down close to 8:00 and then you wake anywhere from 4-6 and eat really quick and go back down until about 8:00!!! It is a great schedule!!! Jack did sleep 8-8 a lot earlier than this but this is the little schedule he was on for a long time!

*you love your brothers and Jack thinks you said "bu-bah" the other day!! it is really cute because he was SOOO excited!!! and the more you "thought" we could understand you the more you would say it!

* you say something that sounds like "ninny" all the time...MiMi is convinced that you are saying her name!!!

*you have taken 3 little road trips now and you are a great little traveler! You aren't crazy about your car seat for long periods of time or if the car is still...so I am always worried it's going to be bad...but you have done great!!! {bartlesville, lake texoma, and dallas...and we are going on our first ever mommy/daughter shopping trip to dallas this weekend with mimi and gigi!!! I am SOOO excited!!!!}

*you are the most loved little girl!

tHIS iS tHE dAY tHAT tHE LORD hAS mADE...

wE wILL rEJOICE aND bE gLAD iN iT!!

pSALM 118:24

We are trying to enjoy every minute of these little cuties!!! They are getting so big!

Jack starts school in a little less than a month and my heart just breaks thinking about him being away from me every day! We are lucky that Edmond still has 1/2 day kindergarten so the transition shouldn't be too bad...and in the last few days I really feel like the Lord has changed my heart that this is a very exciting time for him and I want to be excited about it too...I LOVED school so much when I was little {not so much when I was older...} and I hope that he loves it too!! He tells me all the time that he is ready to go to big boy school where you sit at desks and do science and math!!!

funny jack story

Yesterday he was sitting at his little table in deep thought drawing on a magna doodle and when I asked him what he was doing he said "oh just designing something....it's an invention that is powered by the sun, that means it has a solar panel" ...he might be smarter than his mommy already!!! sweet boy!

Sam Thomas....this little guy is about the sweetest thing right now! He has such an ornery little side to him but when it comes down to it he might also be out sweetest of the three!!! Sam's wife is going to be a lucky girl because when he loves you he really knows how to make you feel so special! Usually this is Bob that gets all the love but this summer he has been pretty sweet to his mommy too!!! He is a snuggle bunny!!! He will just sit on your lap and grab your face and love on ya~it's about the best thing ever! Up until this point Sammy has always wanted to do everything that Jack does and be just like his big brother and this summer it has been so fun to see him turn into an independent little boy who has his own little ideas!!! I love watching him play and learn things on his own!!!

funny sammy story
The other day Jack was upset with something that Sammy was doing and said "Sam, if you don't stop you are going to see my dark side!" (maybe we are a little too into superheroes right now!!) well a few days later Sammy was annoyed with Jack and said "Jack you are going to see my hot side!!!" I asked him if he meant his dark side and he said "yeah, my dark side and my hot side!"

I LOVE these little boys!!!

Miss Molly....she is still our sweet little baby girl...BUT, she might be going through a little something right now....some people like to call it separation anxiety...I like to call it L-O-V-E!!! I mean if i leave the room to answer the door the girl has tears running down her face! it's pretty sad...but I know the day of her not wanting me to be around is right around the corner....so for today I am going to try to enjoy it!!!

Happy Summer!!!

hAPPY 4th oF jULY!!!

Sammy looks so sad in this pic...but it was the best one of the other two...Sam is not really into pics right now....can't blame him...I don't like being in them either! I love these three little kiddos more each day!!! We just got back from the lake tonight...we had a great time! Bob and I talked several times this weekend about how little Jack Robert is growing up right before our eyes!!! He is turning into a sweet little man! We love seeing him enjoy each new stage of being a big boy! He loved spending time with all the cousins!! Sammy is just a little sweet heart! I think this weekend I realized how old Jack is and how young my little Sammy is! He wants so bad to be big and do all the things that Jack gets to do....but he is still very much my little baby boy! He loves to cuddle and be held!! He adores his daddy!!! He loved playing with Zach and Ryan!!! He calls them "the cousins" ...it is the cutest thing!! He really does have such a calm, sweet little spirit the older he gets! Don't get me wrong he is still our tough little man who loves to wrestle and can beat up his big brother...but deep down I think he might be our little sweet heart! Miss Molly enjoyed her 1st 4th of July too! She had lots of fun little clothes and swim suits to wear and we were only there for one weekend so we had a little fashion show almost and she changed clothes and swim suits a few times a day!!! Jack and Sammy's favorite is this little "bee-kini" that she is wearing in the picture! They thought it was pretty funny that Molly had a "bee-kini" ...and they think saying the word like this is even funnier! She is so easy and just adjusts well no matter what we are doing...I'm always worried how she might do when we are doing things that are really more age appropriate for the boys...we are always pleasantly surprised!

I will have to do another post about the lake later...but right now I think this momma is going to bed!! The lake with 3 kiddos 5years and under is anything but relaxing!!! We are TIRED! :)

sEVEN mONTHS oLD!!

hAPPY 7 mONTH bIRTHDAY lITTLE bIRDIE!!Molly...I have no idea how you are already 7 months old!!! You are growing so much faster than your brothers did!!! We love you more each day and feel so blessed that the Lord has trusted us with your little life!!!I love your big blue eyes and sweet red hair!!! Your brothers think you are about the sweetest thing ever!!! They love to make you laugh and love telling me all the new things you are doing each day just in case I'm not catching it all!!!

{Molly Reed at 7 months old you are..}

*eating lots of baby food! you love pears, bananas, and sweet potatoes!!

*you still wear the same size...12months or 12-18

*you love baths! you've been having them in the kitchen sink lately...you've almost out grown it!!!

*you wear size 3 diaper

*you have said "da-da" a few times and your daddy thinks he is pretty special!!!

*you are a much better sleeper these days!!!

*you took your 1st trip to the lake and did great!

*you have two cute little teeth

*you are the most loved little girl!!

wE LoVe dAdDy!!!

I am a little late posting this... I love my dad so much!! He is such a good dad to me and my sister! I LOVE watching him be "Poppy" to my kiddos! He is the best! They all three adore him so much!!! He can make the boys laugh so hard and he is just a total mush about Miss Molly!!! I am so proud of my dad!!

Dad, I hope you had a great Father's Day and hope you loved Luby's!!!! It will probably be a year before we go again!! {my dad loves the cafeteria!!! We give him a hard time about it and we never want to go there....so last week my mother and I decided it would be fun to take him there for Father's Day lunch....I was actually pleasantly surprised that it was clean and good...and the boys LOVED it! Jack ate more than he ever does!!! it was pretty funny!}

So, I might be the world's worst gift giver when it comes to Bob...and he is the best with me...so this year I decided to try to step it up a bit...I think he liked it!!!

We did something special every day last week for him {i totally stole this idea from him...he's done it for me a few times!} I don't have pics of everything we did, but here are a few...

We had "DAD" donuts made for him in his favorite flavor, maple!!

Here is Bob with his dad and our kiddos! We had a yummy dinner at Bob and Reda's on Sunday night!

One day while Bob was at work we made him some cookies that he likes and I had the boys tell me their favorite things about Bob...it was really cute to see all the things that they came up with! Both of the boys think their daddy is pretty special!!!

One of his gifts was this picture framed for his office....{I LOVE that she is all dolled up and they are in undies and capes...that is pretty much what you get around here!!! we love a good super hero cape right now!!!}

and this was his face when he opened it...

we also got him some new tennis shoes, a few new shirts, the boys wore their "dad rocks" shirts one day, we had daddy's best friend over for dinner one night, we went to see toy story 3 as a family, and then celebrated all day on Sunday!

I know everyone thinks their husband is the best....but Bob really is! :)

He loves us all so well! He is the perfect daddy to all three of our kids! I love to see him with them! Jack thinks he is so cool and the smartest man in the world..Sammy thinks he is his best friend and wants to be by his side all the time and Miss Molly's little face just lights up when she sees him!!! I am so lucky to get to parent with Bob! He is so wise at leading our family and I love him more and more each day!!! When we very first started dating I was a nanny for 3 little girls and I remember seeing him with them for the first time and just knowing that he was going to be an amazing daddy one day!!! He is way better than I ever imagined!!!

I love you Bob!!!

Hope you had a great Father's Day!!